Synopsis

Plot

Gumball, Darwin, and Anais are going through the trash when they discover several gifts and a strange letter to Nicole from a man named Daniel Lennard. The children are convinced that Daniel Lennard is out to steal their mom. Nicole appears and demands they stop going through the trash (using her fingers as eyebrows because she would have a wrinkled face if she frowned every time the kids did something wrong).

Gumball formulates a desperate and far-fetched plan to convince Daniel Lennard to leave their mom alone. The episode's entire plot occurs in the kids' detailed walkthrough of their plan. In the first part of the plan, Darwin attempts to call Nicole and trick her into leaving the house. He fails several times and ends up using a payphone and pre-written notes. When Nicole leaves for work, Gumball sneaks in and accesses her computer, but must constantly rewrite it to fix errors like using dialogue such as "mega-important, dude," signing the email from "Gumball" then "Mom" and writing the wrong subject.

After the trio's planned lunch, they attempt to sneak past their father, who keeps catching them because of the smell of the burritos' sauce they had. They eventually have to eat their lunch without the sauce and rush to the park where they have planned to meet Daniel Lennard. It takes five hours for Anais to make it to the park (due to her small legs), but Gumball had planned ahead and told Daniel Lennard to meet them at a delayed time. Although Darwin is convinced the gate to the park is locked (and puts Gumball through the trouble of climbing over), it is actually open, and the trio go inside.

When they meet Daniel Lennard (an imagined version), he surprisingly is aware that they were tricking him. He chases Darwin and Anais, and when Darwin asks how he knew their plan, he says that they put "Fake Email to Daniel Lennard" in the subject line of the email. Gumball, to his annoyance, sends himself back in time through the plan to convince himself to correct the subject line. Past Gumball refuses, though, and begins to beat himself up to harm the future Gumball.

When Gumball finally rewrites the past, they carry out their plan, Gumball having to repeatedly go back in time to dodge attacks by Daniel Lennard. Finally, Gumball resists a taser attack by Daniel Lennard and declares their plan foolproof. They return to the real world from their plan, only to barely get anywhere before discovering a billboard advertising "Daniel Lennard Anti-Aging Products," revealing Lennard to be nothing more than a cosmetics product.

Daniel Lennard

[At the Wattersons' front lawn, Gumball and Darwin are digging through trash as an unimpressed Anais watches them]

Gumball: Where are they? Where are they? Where are they?!

Anais: Is it really that important?

Gumball: Of course it is! This is Krupoch the Barbarian! [An action figure is shown in Anais' hand] Without his weapons he's... Krupoch, the weird dude who hangs out in furry underpants and looks like he's angrily trying to shake hands with people.

Anais: [picks up another sheet of paper] Him apparently. For Mom?! Look at all this stuff he sent her. And listen to this. [reads]Here's another gift because your beauty and happiness is the most important thing in my world. Signed, Daniel Lennard. That guy's trying to steal our mom!

[Gumball and Darwin gasp. Gumball pretends to play "DUN DUN DUN DUN" on an imaginary piano, and Darwin pretends to faint]

Anais: We need to find him and make sure-

Nicole: What are you doing?

[Nicole appears, and she is using her hands to show her anger instead of her eyebrows. Gumball, Darwin and Anais eye her suspiciously]

Gumball: What are you doing?

Nicole: Showing you how angry I am. If I had to pull a real frown every time you guys misbehaved, I'd be more wrinkly than a granny in a bath. What are you doing spreading trash all over the grass?

Anais: Tsk. [sighs] We should've seen this coming. She's a great mom, who wouldn't want her? We have to do something before that guy steals her away!

Gumball: [sits up] I've got a plan! [faints yet again]

Initial Planning

Gumball: First, Darwin uses his man voice to call Mom, pretending to be her boss and tell her that she has to go in to work...

Darwin: Hello, this is your boss from the place you work--

Nicole: [runs out of the house]

Gumball: When she leaves the house, we hack into her email, and send a message to Daniel Lennard posing as her to get him to agree to a secret meeting in the park tonight. Then we steal some of Mom's clothes, THEN, we break for lunch, I'm thinking burrito... THEN, we sneak out of the house with the clothes and cross town to the park. Once there, you will tell Daniel Lennard that he's in danger...

Anais: You are in danger, Daniel Lennard.

Gumball: And that Mom is a horrible carnivorous monster, and you are the survivors of her previous family. Then I'll attack in disguise of Mom, [a shot of Gumball in Nicole's clothes, screaming as he pops out of a bush] scaring him away forever. BOOM!

Anais: Hmm, that could work, but we need to make sure nothing can go wrong. Let's go through this in detail! Okay, so what exactly will Darwin say to Mom?

Tricking Nicole

[The kids imagine the situation, Nicole is in the kitchen and her phone rings]

Nicole: [answers phone] Hello, Nicole Watterson.

Darwin: [does not know what to say] Uh....

Nicole: Who is this? [Darwin's head explodes]

Anais: [in real time as Gumball scribbles on a notepad] Okay, so we call Mom and Darwin reads what's on the paper.

Gumball: [hands Darwin the notepad]

[Back in the kids' imagination, Nicole is in the kitchen and Darwin calls from another phone in the living room]

Nicole: [answers phone] Hello, Nicole Watterson.

Darwin: [reading from notepad] Hello, this is your boss from the place you work.

Gumball: [groans in frustration] Okay, so we write a script and call Mom from a payphone.

Darwin: Hello, this is your boss from the place you work. We needed you to come here right away or you're fired!

Nicole: Why? What's going on? Is it the Kobayashi account or is it the infrastructure problem with the throughput outflow?

Darwin: [unsure of what to say again] Uhh...

Anais: [appears behind Darwin and puts him back together just as he explodes][whispers] Turn the page!

Darwin: [flips the page] It's so serious I can't discuss it over the phone, bye!

Nicole: [runs out of the house]

E-mail to Daniel Lennard

Gumball: [pops out from behind a nearby bush] Then I get to the computer!

[Nicole's bedroom door swings open and Gumball enters cartwheeling into the room, back-flips onto the bed, spins in mid-air landing on a handstand, somersaults forward, and leaps over the chair into the seat and begins typing]

Gumball: Haha! [back in his bedroom pantomiming typing while making clicking sounds]

Anais: [watching with Darwin unconvinced] Come on, let's be real for a minute.

[Nicole's bedroom door swings open and Gumball enters attempting a few cartwheels, jumps onto the bed face-first, rolls off the side, tiptoes over to the computer, tries to climb over the back of the chair, and then resorts to ballet twirling around it]

Gumball: [hops into the chair] Okay, then I... [out of breath] I'm so-- [takes a few breaths before recovering] Then I break into Mom's email account. [after dramatic closeup accompanied by music begins typing and voicing out his email]DEAR DANIEL LENNARD!

To the Park

[Back in Gumball's room, the kids are pantomiming eating burritos before heading out in their plan]

Darwin: [finishes eating and "cleans" his hands] Burritos are nice, but they're kind of messy.

[In the kids' imagination in the living room, Richard is asleep on the couch]

Gumball: [crawling behind the couch with Darwin while narrating softly] Okay, next, we sneak past Dad to get to the park. It should be easy; he'll be asleep.

Richard: [begins to sniff and wakes to find Darwin and Gumball sneaking out] Hey! Where do you think you're going?

Darwin: [exclaims in surprise at being caught][back in their room] Why'd he wake up?

Anais: He smelled us. You wiped some sauce on yourself.

Gumball: Lunch time again!

[The kids are sitting on the ground again, pantomiming eating their burritos]

Gumball: Upupup! Don't forget to use your napkin! [everyone proceeds to wipe their mouths][sneaking past Richard again with Darwin narrating off-screen again] Okay, next, we sneak past dad to get to the park!

Richard: [wakes up and looks behind the couch to find the boys] Hey! Where do you think you're going?

Darwin: [exclaims in surprise] How is that even possible? He smelled it from inside us?

[Kids are redoing the lunchtime scene "eating" their burritos with sullen faces]

Darwin: [sighs, disappointed] It's just not as good without the sauce.

[The plan cuts to Gumball and Darwin running down a street]

Darwin: Why did you leave five hours to run to a park that's only three blocks away?

Gumball: Because! [back in their room where Gumball and Darwin are running in place][gestures to Anais] She's got no legs. They're more like feet coming out of her body.

Anais: [angrily] Why don't we take bikes?

Gumball: [still running with Darwin] Because-- [back to the street] It's way funnier to watch you try to run!

Anais: [running as fast as she can, grunting while trying to keep up with Gumball and Darwin]

[In front of the park gates Darwin is standing there bored and Anais finally catches up]

Anais: [out of breath] Aw man! [falls to her knees] The park's closed! [collapses and, getting up, in says in a raspy voice] Why didn't you get in when it was open!?

Darwin: It was closed when we got here. I've been waiting for four hours for him to man up and jump, [in a sing-song voice] but he's too scared!

Gumball: [on top of the gates] I'm not scared! [less confidently] I just don't want to do it.

Darwin: [starts to shake the gate still in a sing-song voice] You don't want to because you're scared!

Gumball: [begins to freak out and cries out incoherently] Dude, not cool! Okay fine, I'm doing it! [prepares to jump off the gate][takes a deep breath] Okay, three, two, one... [jumps off but pants gets snagged on a spike on the gate][he cries out in a high-pitched opera tone] Do something! Help me out! Don't leave me hanging! Please, please, somebody do something! [cries out as the scene goes back to their bedroom to reveal he is holding himself up by his pants]

Anais: [with a raised eyebrow] You do know realize this is all just happening in your head, right?

Gumball: [sets himself down] Yeah, but let's just go to the shop to buy some rope before we go to the park. [with a horrified look] Because I'm not going through that again.

[On the other side of the park gate hangs a rope from which Gumball slides down followed by Darwin and then Anais who falls flat on her face. When she recovers, the three of them notice all the people in the park]

Anais: How did they get in here when the gate is... [opens the gate to reveal it was not locked] Wait, no one actually tried it!?

Darwin: It was shut!

Anais: A shut door isn't a locked door! [closes gate and crosses arms] I think we all learned that after the Granny Jojo dressing room incident.

Gumball: [shudders disgusted as he remembers] What kind of weirdo gets dressed hat first? Anyway, [looks among the people walking about the park] which one is Daniel Lennard?

Darwin: [begins to look around as well] We'll know when we see him, but right now, let's just imagine what he would be. [he and Gumball get into thinking positions]

Gumball: Well, we already saw from his note that he's pretty slimy. [ball of slime appears out of thin air before them] We also know he's rich, so he must be full of "bling". [ball of slime grows a top hat, a pocket watch, and a chain necklace with a dollar sign]

Daniel Lennard: [grows arms, legs, and a cane and proceeds to walk away to meet Nicole]

Gumball: [quietly to Anais and Darwin] Okay, everyone put on their disguises!

Daniel Lennard: [pulls out an old pocket watch from his person and checks on it]

Anais: [with Darwin in old, ragged clothes] Uh, Mr. Lennard?

Daniel Lennard: [in a high-pitched voice] Yes, indeed!

Anais: There's no way Mom would fall for a guy with a voice like that.

Darwin: Evil voice!

Daniel Lennard: Yes, indeed.

Anais: Uh, we need to warn you, good sir!

Daniel Lennard: Oh, but it's you who should be warned. I came for you![reaches out for the children]

[Anais and Darwin run through the park screaming pursued by Daniel Lennard when Anais trips near a swing set]

Anais: Darwin, help me! [gets up and starts running again as Darwin runs to the swing set]

Daniel Lennard: [arrives at the swing set]

Darwin: Stay away from us! [grabs a swing and swings it at Daniel Lennard][swing passes through him and comes back to hit Darwin in the face]

Daniel Lennard: [begins to laugh darkly]

Darwin: [starts running again as Anais tries to keep up][picks up Anais]

Anais: We're not gonna make it!

Darwin: Do you trust me!?

Anais: Of course!

Darwin: Then, go! [throws Anais before crashing into a wall]

Anais: [slides face first into the ground]

Darwin: [sets Anais on her feet]

Anais: You throw worse than I run.

Daniel Lennard: [catches up and towers over them] You thought you could trick me?!

Darwin: [cries out and cowers in fear with Anais] How does he know about our plan?!

Daniel Lennard: [advancing towards them] Because next time you plan to get rid of me, don't write "Fake Email to Daniel Lennard" in the subject line!!

Gumball: [back in their room watching Darwin and Anais cowering with a horrified face][they turn to him with disapproving looks] Well, I couldn't be bothered, alright?! I've written that email a million times already! [defeated by their disappointment and sighs] Fine.

Future Gumball: [in a foreboding tone] Gumball, I am you from the future! [bluntly] And I know it's a total bummer, but you're gonna have to correct the subject line.

Past Gumball: Can't you do it? You're here now.

Future Gumball: Gosh, was I really that much of a jerk when I was young?

Anais: [as a disembodied voice] Yup!

Past Gumball: [uninterested] Gosh, am I really that much of a sucker in the future?

Future Gumball: Don't mess with me, little man, 'cause I can go back in time and do this!

Past Gumball: [cries out in pain as the computer mouse swaps into a mouse trap and his hand is caught in it] So, you think you're the only one that can play that game, huh!? [begins to gorge on the bag of Rainbow Peanut Butter on the desk][muffled while eating] Let's see how you feel after I've had all that candy!

Past Gumball: [jumps out of his seat in pain to reveal his rear is covered in miniature barbarian weapons] What the-- Gah! Krupoch's weapons!? Fine, you asked for this! [grabs computer keyboard and drags tongue over the keys]

Past Gumball: [chair is stuck to Gumball and he screams] You put tape on it!? [tries to get up but realizes] Gah! You left the weapons on!

Future Gumball: [coughing and weakly says] Change the subject of the email!

Past Gumball: [tries to surrender] Okay, okay. [moves back] Or maybe I'll do this! [charges forward as Future Gumball moves out of the way and he flies out the window earning many injuries off screen damaging Future Gumball]

Gumball: [back in their room he is writhing on the floor in pain to illustrate Future Gumball's state]

Anais: You do realize that this is costing you guys way more effort than just changing the message subject?